“Mesu jamba,” a Slur against Ilorin People, is a Linguistic Fraud Farooq A. Kperogi Saturday, July 20, 2024 Mesu jamba By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi One of the responses I got to last week’s column repeated a historically and sociolinguisticall...
“Mesu Jamba,” the Question of Etymological Fallacy, and Other Reactions Farooq A. Kperogi Sunday, November 18, 2018 Politics of Grammar By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi My November 4, 2018 column titled “Mesu Jamba, a Slur Against Ilorin People, is a...
“Mesu jamba,” a Slur against Ilorin People, is a Linguistic Fraud Farooq A. Kperogi Sunday, November 04, 2018 Mesu jamba By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi For those who are not clued-in on Yoruba cultural politics, “ mesu jamba ” is a t...